My scribling* is divided into Fiction (newer) and Ramblings (older nonfiction writing around tech product development). Enjoy!
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Who me?
Read more: Who me?Looking back, I think I have been trying to write all my life. I can remember as a child earnestly explaining to my Mother that I wanted to write a book, but that I was going to need something that would put the words on the paper (typewriter? cold metal printing press? Letraset?). It was…
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A Cool Head
Read more: A Cool HeadShe has been here for three days. Three solitary days of watching and waiting. Sleep has been a problem, snatched naps, little Bo-Peeps, nodding. She has kept it at bay with the Pro Plus, but now it is wearing thin. Her concentration fluctuates, her mind feels like it is pulled tight and thin over the…
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Claw and Fang Night
Read more: Claw and Fang NightThe bright full moon shone through the window like a searchlight. Its harsh blue light illuminating the room and throwing pitch dark shadows where its fingers failed to reach. I had awoken with a jerk, the moonlight in my face, bright enough to perturb my vision through closed eyelids. Had I failed to keep track…
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Are AIs Intelligent and does it matter?
Read more: Are AIs Intelligent and does it matter?Years ago, I asked a very intelligent friend what he thought of Artificial Intelligence. After the briefest pause he replied, “I think we are a pretty good simulation of it.” It took me a moment to understand what he meant. I guess Turing had it right in 1950 (or Denis Diderot in 1746, or René…
* ‘Scribbling’ surely? Well the OED does have scribling as an alternative spelling and anyway the URL was cheaper!